📈 Human Progress
In the last decades humanity has made great progress with less extreme poverty, increased health, wealth and democracy. We follow in the tradition of professor Hans Rosling.
☠️ Doomsdays That Never Happened
Humanity does seem to have a soft spot for the thought of its imminent destruction. Fortunately, we have beaten the odds of doom and gloom more than once...
🧜♀️ MERMAID, the future saviour of coral reefs?
MERMAID is a platform on which scientists can upload data about different coral reefs and share it with other scientists. New upgrades to MERMAID can turn coral reef data into conservation action.
🌄 50 countries work together to protect 30 percent of the earth's oceans and land
A number of both rich and poor countries have joined forces to try to preserve a large part of the earth as wilderness.
🛒 The app that shows carbon footprints from your purchases
This app tracks your carbon footprint after every purchase, showing you how you can become more environmentally friendly.
🦟 A new dawn for malaria control in Southern Africa
A new application system uses artificial intelligence to detect the presence of malaria parasites in the blood cell of a patient, by just submitting a picture of the patient’s blood cell.
📀 A backup on the moon for all human knowledge
A foundation wants to create an archive of human knowledge and store it around the solar system on quartz disks that retain the information for billions of years.
💻 The pandemic shows the enormous benefits of digitalization
More flexibility, higher productivity, higher quality of life, and fewer days of sick leave. Working from home is not without problems, but studies show the benefits outweigh them. It took a pandemic to realize this, writes Anna Rennéus Guthrie.
🐦 Reduced air pollution has saved 1.5 billion birds
Stricter air pollution laws have saved many birds in the United States over the past 40 years.
🥼 Swedish government decides on billion-dollar investment in research and innovation
Last year's pandemic resulted in a decision by the government to allocate more money for research. Two of the areas that will get the most money are research on viruses and the environment.